Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ: HURN), a leading provider of business
consulting services, today announced that Bill
Cronin has joined the Company as a managing director in its Huron
Education practice. Cronin will lead the Company’s services related
to Workday
applications for university and academic medical center clients.
“Higher education institutions continue to face economic and competitive
pressures that are creating a more intense focus on improving
administrative functions by leveraging technology investments,” said Laura
Yaeger, executive vice president, Huron
Education. “Bill will help our clients improve their administrative
processes and systems and realize savings through the deployment of the
Workday cloud-based financial management, human capital management, and
student applications. We are pleased to welcome him to the Company.”
Cronin
has nearly 20 years of consulting experience and specializes in
enterprise resource planning (ERP) and transformation for the higher
education industry. He joins Huron Education from Accenture, where he
was a managing director and led the North American Education portfolio
for the Health and Public Service practice.
At Huron Education, Cronin
will work with the practice’s cloud team to expand the breadth of its Workday
offering. He will lead teams supporting new growth opportunities that
combine a strong Workday practice with Huron’s leading higher education
and enterprise transformation experience to deliver value for university
and academic medical center clients.
Huron became a Workday
Services Partner in November 2014.
About Huron Education
Huron
Education is the premier provider serving the unique needs of the
higher education industry. Our team of professionals, each with
extensive knowledge and experience in the business of higher education
and academic medical centers, delivers comprehensive services to the
industry and partners with institutions to improve business performance
across the enterprise. Our professionals draw from their experience
working in the strategic, financial, operational, and regulatory aspects
of higher education to develop and implement the most effective
consulting and software solutions. Huron Education has helped more than
90 of the nation’s top 100 research universities improve their
performance so they can continue their traditions of extraordinary
achievement. Learn more at www.huronconsultinggroup.com/highereducation
or follow us on Twitter: @Huron.
About Huron Consulting Group
Huron Consulting Group helps clients in diverse industries improve
performance, transform the enterprise, reduce costs, leverage
technology, process and review large amounts of complex data, address
regulatory changes, recover from distress and stimulate growth. Our
professionals employ their expertise in finance, operations, strategy
and technology to provide our clients with specialized analyses and
customized advice and solutions that are tailored to address each
client's particular challenges and opportunities to deliver sustainable
and measurable results. The Company provides consulting services to a
wide variety of both financially sound and distressed organizations,
including healthcare organizations, leading academic institutions,
Fortune 500 companies, governmental entities and law firms. Huron has
worked with more than 425 health systems, hospitals, and academic
medical centers; more than 400 corporate general counsel; and more than
350 universities and research institutions. Learn more at www.huronconsultinggroup.com.
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